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Private take the spacecraft to the international space station
According to NASA, California-based private missile company SpaceX is planning to launch a Dragon transport ship in February 2012.
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Russia launched two communication satellites into Earth's orbit
Space agency Roscosmos said Russia on December 11 launched two contact satellites with Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
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China launched the first HD satellite next year
Xinhua said China will launch its first high-definition (HD) civilian geographic map in January next year.
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China launched two satellites into space
China has successfully launched two scientific research satellites into orbit on November 20.
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Russia successfully launched the space shuttle onto the International Space Station
Russia announced the unmanned aerial shuttle Progress (Progress) was successfully launched yesterday, October 30, to the International Space Station (ISS) - after the fa…
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Progress transport ship docked at ISS
Russian Progress transport ship on the evening of November 2 came to connect to the International Space Station (ISS), bringing food, water and other scientific equipmen…
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Boeing will fly test space Taxi
The Boeing Group said it will use the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (which used to be a space shuttle) to design and build a
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China is about to launch unmanned spacecraft
China will launch the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft in early November from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest desert area. This is part of China's own…
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Russian missile launches
Viasat-1 broadband satellite, one of the most powerful satellites ever developed, has joined the trajectory on Russian proton boosters.
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Europe's satellite launch is postponed
The orbital flight of two European-built satellite satellites could not take place today due to a technical problem.
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Europe's satellite navigation pair takes off
Russia's Soyuz boosters brought the first two satellites in Europe's global positioning system to Earth's orbit yesterday.
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Chinese missiles launched French satellites into orbit
On October 7, 2011, from the West Xuong Satellite Launch Center, China's Long March-III2 rocket launched the French W3C satellite satellite into orbit.
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India launches satellite to study weather
India's four satellites today are launched from the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, to serve the weather study.
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NASA 'moon' twins
Nasa's pair of 'twin' spacecraft called GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B was launched on the moon on September 30 and October 5 respectively. The spacecraft attached to the rocket is…
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China launched the first module for the space station
China yesterday successfully launched its first test module just before the country's national anniversary, in preparation for the construction of the space station.